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> Sublime looks nice, but not so far ahead of vim that I want to take the time to learn it and pay for a license. I suppose that it's worth a trial, but I haven

by cauthon 10y ago

> Sublime looks nice, but not so far ahead of vim that I want to take the time to learn it and pay for a license. I suppose that it's worth a trial, but I haven't gotten around to it. I use vim these days, but to be fair to Sublime, the license isn't really required. Every so often (maybe every 10 times you close a file?) it asks if you'd like to buy a license, but there's no functional restrictions on an unlicensed copy and no consequence for perpetually ignoring the pop-up. I wouldn't worry about getting around to it too soon. Sublime is great, and it has a plugin to support normal/insert modes and most vim bindings, but I've found that anything I can do in Sublime I can do in vim, and I can't run Sublime on remote hosts. It's an editor, it's always going to be subjective preference.

khedoros 10y ago
> but to be fair to Sublime, the license isn't really required. I understand that, and that's great for trying it out and deciding if I'd like to stick with it or not. Eventually, I'd buy the license, if I liked it well enough. Either I'd spend a bunch of time and learn some concrete reasons for why I didn't want to use Sublime, or I'd find a new best friend, pay $70, and change my workflow to doing more work locally rather than on the remote machines. It may be worthwhile, and it may not be, but there's a guarantee that I'll be spending a bunch of time finding out. In the end, I was just trying to give a concrete answer for why I was using vim rather than something newer and trendier.